Google Forms is a useful survey tool which is popularly used for personal as well as for work. It is included in the Google Docs suite along with Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides. Google Forms allows collecting information from users through online surveys. The collected information is automatically displayed in beautiful chart / graphs and the results can be downloaded as a spreadsheet report. Suppose are writing a report in Microsoft Word and you want to Copy Paste Google Form Chart or Graph to Microsoft Word document , then how to do it? Google Form display a copy icon but when I tried I was unable to Copy paste Google Form Chart or Graph to Microsoft Word document. Here in this post, we shall discuss some workaround if you are unable to copy paste Google Form Summary Chart or Graph to Microsoft Word document.
Scenario: Copy chart from Google Form and use it in Google Docs (it works)
- Open the Google Form and click on Responses
- It will open Summary by default. Find a chart to copy.
- Clicked on the copy icon right at top-right corner of the chart or diagram. You will get a message that it has been copied to to the clipboard in the lower left corner.
- I then tried to paste it in a document on Google Docs (https://docs.google.com/), and it is working. The graph appears on Google Docs.
Scenario: Copy chart from Google Form and use it in Microsoft Word (it does not work)
- Open the Google Form and click on Responses
- It will open Summary by default. Find a chart to copy.
- Clicked on the copy icon right at top-right corner of the chart or diagram. Got a message that it has been copied to to the clipboard in the lower left corner.
- Pasted the graph copied in a Microsoft Word document. It is not appearing in Microsoft Word.
I looked up and I also saw a similar question on Google Support but without any answers to the question – “Forms: Chart copy/paste doesn’t work?”
Workaround :
If you want to Copy Paste Google Form Chart or Graph to Microsoft Word document, you can copy the chart to Google Docs and copy it from there to use in Microsoft Word document. It works. But that is a long process.
OR
Take a screenshot of the chart from Google Form and paste it in Microsoft Word.
To get a precise screenshot, you may consider using Snipping Tool in Windows or Lightshot – a better screenshot tool.
Update: 04/01/2022
Copy Paste Google Form Chart or Graph to Microsoft Word document working.
(Version: Microsoft Word Professional 2016).
